The Computer Science Department is pleased to announce the new CS 401R course that will be offered winter semesters.  This course, titled Fundamentals of Information Retrieval will be taught by Dennis Ng winter semester 2010 on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3-4:15 p.m. more

Do not miss the opportunity to meet personally with representatives from across the spectrum of the computer science industry.  You can plan for your future, learn more about the opportunities awaiting you after graduation, begin the process of networking and making contacts in the industry, and grab a doughnut...all without leaving the Talmage Building!  The Career Fair Preview will be Tuesday, October 6 at 12 noon in 1170 TMCB.  Companies attending:  Avalanche Disney Interactive Studios, LDS Church Department of Information and Communication, and National Instruments. more

The joint CRA/CCC CIFellow program, funded by the National Science Foundation, awards excellent PhD graduates in computer science and related fields. The award consists of support for research and teaching for 1-2 years. The total award is approximately $140,000 including stipend, benefits, travel and other research costs. This award is highly competitive. The program received more than 900 applications in 2009 and selected only 60 outstanding awardees.

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Bill Lund received the award for Best Student Paper at JCDL 2009 (the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries) in Austin, Texas. The paper, coauthored by BYU Computer Science Faculty member Eric Ringger, was also a finalist for the best full paper at the conference. more

Stephen Lynn, a Computer Science PhD student, recently received the best paper award at the European Interactive Television conference in Levan, Belgium. The paper, which he coauthored with Brett Partridge (CS Alum) and Dan Olsen (CS Faculty), is entitled "Time Warp Football." Using internet television technology from Move Networks and video obtained from the BYU Football office, they created a prototype of how television over the Internet can change the viewing experience. Time Warp Football allows the viewer to select the camera angle, replays, displays of statistics and most other facets of the game view experience. When the officials rule on a really close case of pass interference, the viewers themselves can work through all of the different camera angles and replay the play from as many of them as they desire.

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Kendell Clement, who is completing his BS degree in the Computer Science department this August, was recently awarded a Fulbright Scholarship.  He will be studying Bioinformatics in Germany this upcoming year, then after that will be pursuing a PhD in Bioinformatics at MIT, in a jointly sponsored program between MIT and Harvard.  more

Tanja Brown, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science and a research assistant in BYU's interdisciplinary IDeA Labs, received a 2009 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for her research proposal entitled "Cooperative Differential Games." The three-year fellowship, which provides a $30,000 annual stipend, $10,500 cost-of-education allowance and travel funds, is highly competitive, designed to recognize the top science, technology, engineering, and math graduate students nationwide.     The award is based on Tanja's abilities and accomplishments as well as her potential to contribute to strengthening the vitality of the U.S. science and engineering enterprise.

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Brigham Young University's latest animated shorts, "Pajama Gladiator," which was finished in 2008, and "Kites," which was completed in 2009, have won student Academy Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.  In the 36th Student Academy Awards® (2009) competition, "Pajama Gladiator" was awarded the Gold Medal in the Animation category, with "Kites" bringing home the Bronze Medal in the same category. more

The ninth annual Family History Technology Workshop, held March 12, 2009, provided evidence that the workshop is beginning to expand beyond its original conception.  From its beginnings, the Workshop has expanded to include a wide-range of genealogists and scientists. more